Guna language
E68751
Guna language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna people of Panama and Colombia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guna language canonical | 14 |
| Cuna language | 1 |
| Wounaan language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T542961 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guna language Context triple: [Kuna language, alternativeName, Guna language]
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A.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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B.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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C.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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D.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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E.
Berom language
The Berom language is a Plateau language spoken primarily by the Berom people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, especially around Jos in Plateau State.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guna language Target entity description: Guna language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna people of Panama and Colombia.
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A.
Ndyuka language
The Ndyuka language is an English-based creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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B.
Nupe language
The Nupe language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Nupe people in central Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt region.
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C.
Yola language
The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.
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D.
Kamviri language
The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.
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E.
Berom language
The Berom language is a Plateau language spoken primarily by the Berom people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, especially around Jos in Plateau State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chibchan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Dulegaya
ⓘ
Kuna language ⓘ
linked to:
Kuna
|
| autonymMeaning | language of the people ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Buglere language
ⓘ
Ngäbere language ⓘ |
| country |
Colombia
ⓘ
Panama ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Guna people ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Border Guna
ⓘ
Guna of Madungandí ⓘ Guna of Wargandí ⓘ San Blas Guna ⓘ
linked to:
San Blas Kuna
|
| hasDomainUsage |
community political meetings
ⓘ
local radio broadcasting ⓘ traditional songs and chants ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Dulegaya ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kuna1268 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
numeral classifiers
ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRegulatingBody |
Guna General Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
Guna General Congress (language commission)
|
| ISO639-2 | cuk ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cuk ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Chibchan languages ⓘ |
| languageStatusSource | UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger ⓘ |
| primaryScriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| region |
Guna Yala
ⓘ
Madungandí ⓘ
linked to:
Madugandí
Wargandí ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Colombia
ⓘ
Panama ⓘ |
| status | vulnerable ⓘ |
| subfamily | Choco–Darién branch ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication in Guna communities
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual intercultural education programs in Panama ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Guna language Description of subject: Guna language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Guna people of Panama and Colombia.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.